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Published 05 Nov. 2018
Title

Freie Künste. Fachblatt für Lithographie, Steindruckerei und Buchdruckerei.

Authors

Wien, Heim

Description
“Freie Künste. Fachblatt für Lithographie, Steindruckerei und Buchdruckerei. 8 Bände aus den Jahren 1892 bis 1913. Wien, Heim, 1892-1913. 4°. HLwd. d. Zt. (3) u. Lwd. d. Zt. (5). (ehem. Bibl.-Expl.) Mit zahlreichen Textillustrationen und Buchschmuck im Wiener Jugendstil, dazu ca. 150 überwiegend farbige Tafeln mit verschiedensten Reklame- und Werbeentwürfen, meist in Farblithographie.
Außerordentlich seltene Zeitschrift aus der Blütezeit des Wiener Jugendstils. Hier vorhanden die Ausgaben der Jahrgänge: 1892, 1899, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1911 u. 1913. - Etwas gebräunt u. mit Mittelfalz bzw. vertikaler Faltspur, Jg. 1906 gelockert, Beilagen nicht koll., Jgge. 1892 u. 1899 ohne die graph. Beilagen, sonst gut erhalten.
Publication place:

Wien

Date of publication:

1903, 1905, 1909, 1911

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Published 02 Nov. 2018
Title

Handschrift auf Pergament mit anhängenden Siegeln zweier Bischöfe.

Authors

Urkunde zum Konstanzer Konzil, 1415.

Description
Größe, gefaltet ca. 10 x 20 cm. Die Urkunde war Teil eines Konvoluts mit Handschriften (Auktion 27, Katalognummer 125)
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Published 12 Oct. 2018
Title

La Pucelle d'Orléans. Poème héroï-comique en dix-huit chants

Authors

VOLTAIRE

Description
In-12 de 252 pp., maroquin rouge, filets dorés sur les plats, dos lisse orné d'un décor à la grotesque doré, pièce de titre de maroquin vert, coupes et bordures décorées, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
Orné de 18 figures libres. Bel exemplaire en maroquin de l'époque.
Publication place:

Londres, [Paris, Cazin]

Date of publication:

1780

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Published 10 Aug. 2018
Title

EMMA: A Novel

Authors

Austen, Jane

Description
First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Beautifully bound to style by Aquarius of London. Full speckled calf, double ruled in gilt to the upper and lower boards. Five raised bands, elaborate gilt decorated compartments, title and volume numbers in gilt to red and green morocco labels to the spine. Plain endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. Original half title present to volume three. Faded ownership name to the top edge of title page of volume II and the occasional short closed tear and finger mark throughout. A very attractive example.
Publication place:

London

Publisher

London: John Murray.

Date of publication:

1816

First edition:

yes

Format:

Hardcover, three volumes.

Date of theft:

c. 26 July 2018

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Published 10 July 2018
Title

Memoire sur le Pais des Cafres et la Terre de Nuyts [and] Second memoire sur le Pais des Cafres et la Terre de Nuyts

Authors

PURRY, Jean-Pierre

Description
Two volumes in one, small octavo, pp. 84 + 78, [ii]; later calf. First title-page a little dusty and with two early signatures, light marginal water stain on a few leaves in the second work.
Publication place:

Amsterdam

Date of publication:

1718

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Published 22 May 2018
Title

FINNEGANS WAKE

Authors

JOYCE, JAMES

Description
FIRST EDITION. No. 206 OF 425 COPIES, SIGNED BY JOYCE.
Publication place:

London; Faber & Faber; New York: Viking Press

Date of publication:

1939

First edition:

yes

Format:

260 x 171 mm. (10 1/4 x 6 3/4"). 4 p.l., (first blank), 628 pp.

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Published 02 May 2018
Title

DRACULA

Authors

STOKER, BRAM

Description
This is the earliest edition of the most famous and influential vampire tale of all. Stoker (1847-1912) was inspired by the folklore of his native Ireland and by the Gothic novels of his countryman Sheridan Le Fanu. As DNB observes, the "complex and highly symbolic" plot here "illustrated [the author's] fears about a world approaching a new century, about the unspeakable things which could happen to ordinary people, and about male insecurity and the dangers of subservience to another person. . . . Favourably compared with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, it was considered weird and powerful, one of the best in the supernatural line." Received with enthusiasm by critics and the public alike, it went through 11 editions in Stoker's lifetime, and it continues to resonate with readers and to inspire other artists. This is not an especially rare book, but it is not common to find a well-preserved copy, and our appealing morocco binding provides a welcome alternative to the publisher's yellow cloth, which invariably shows up very soiled. (ST13178)
Publication place:

Westminster

Publisher

Archibald Constable and Company

Date of publication:

1897

First edition:

yes

Format:

200 x 130 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/8"). ix, [i], 390 pp.

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Published 25 April 2018
Title

FIVE HUNDRED NEW RECEIPTS IN COOKERY, CONFECTIONARY, PASTRY, PRESERVING, CONSERVING, PICKLING; AND THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THESE ARTS NECESSARY TO BE KNOWN BY ALL GOOD HOUSEWIVES.

Authors

MIDDLETON, JOHN

Description
Revised and recommended by Mr. Henry Howard Pleasing recent retrospective chestnut-colored calf, covers with central frame formed by multiple blind and decorative rules, fleuron cornerpieces, raised bands, maroon morocco label.

Printer's woodcut rose device on title page. Bitting, p. 324; Oxford, p. 64; Vicaire, col. 598; Maclean, p. 101. Title page a little soiled, very faint dampstain to tail margin of first half of text, o ccasional minor marginal stains, smudges, or corner creases, other trivial imperfections, but AN EXCELLENT COPY of a book difficult to find in pleasing condition, the text generally clean and fresh with especially ample margins, and in an unworn sympathetic binding.
Publication place:

London

Publisher

Printed for Thomas Astley

Date of publication:

1734

First edition:

yes

Format:

206 x 124 mm. (8 1/8 x 4 7/8") 1 p.l. (title), iv, 249, [9] pp

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